Universal service provisions allowed telephone service to reach every single person in the entire country back in the day. The same thing should happen for broadband internet access today.
Yes and no. You might be surprised that "back in the day" includes the very recent past. There are some areas that just recently got telephone service.http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-670748.html Hopefully some kind of time frame would be added to the language.
And that the Universal Service Fund (USF) is going to transition over
On October 27, 2011, the FCC approved a six-year transfer process that would transition money from the Universal Service Fund High-Cost Program to a new $4.5 billion a year Connect America Fund for broadband Internet expansion, effectively putting an end to the USF High-Cost Fund by 2018
Lets hope it doesn't take as long as it did for telephony.
You're right, you caught me. This thread buried deep in the story I decided to lie about some anecdotal evidence I have at my large company. Yes yours truly is an insightful post promoting good discussion. Though I suspect you are posting from high school (actually I hope so given the quality).
Let's not limit it to just the sub site of Gizmodo. The whole of Gawker media reeks of this type of "bloggerism" (they are not journalists). The only saving grace that Gawker has seems to be LifeHacker or possibly iO9.
I suspect it's partly regional, your flamebait comment aside. Having said that though, all the engineers and scientists I know either are independant or reluctant republican leaning even those from the New England area. But I work for a huge multinational company and any American engineer leans central-right. Perhaps it's corporate makeup, perhaps not.
One of my techs found out his Comcast service is capped at 200GB per month.
In what world does a residential line have any reason using 200GB per month? Are there any legitimate uses for a residential line using that? What possible legal usage could you have where *currently* that much is needed? What it sounds like is either they are downloading tons of Bittorrent feeds and/or they need a business account. That is so far beyond "normal" usage it's not even funny.
As a primetime NBC Olympics watcher, I was disappointed they didn't show more diving in primetime.
Seriously though, if you work all day, then come home to watch some Olympics in the evening, you'd think the only competitions there are, are some Gymnastics, Swiming, Diving, and Volleyball with a few highlights from track. You'd never know of the numerous other events. NBC coverage was so bad that they would analyze and show every person's dive, replay slowmo with computer analysis, watch them get in the hot tub afterwards and talk with their coach, etc. Then do a quick edit of just the main highlights of another track and field event, then back to more in-depth diving. That or waste even more time by rehashing the 92 dream team. Sorry judo, fencing, weightlifting, etc you don't get any primetime coverage.
Or even worse (from what I've seen), is what Lexus implemented in their cross-overs / SUV's. A type of computer mouse and monitor setup - no lie. Google Images will bring up some pics but it's horrendous.
Hopefully as has been announced with auto mfgs joining forces with Apple (and others?) to bring more sensible interaction with the console as well as smarter with connections with your smartphone.
an insane-right-wing Ayn Rand ideologue who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security
When either side starts using inflammatory language like this it A) makes me think they are afraid and/or B) are full of crap and just trying to vilify whomever they are talking about. You immediately lose any credibility with me.
Red Mars. The reason is because of all the legitimate issues the astronauts had to face and the problems that could/will occur. It turned me off of wanting to go into space until we have something closer to Star Trek.
As long as it's secure and long as the response is more dependable and quicker than Siri. Half the time Siri doesn't work at all for me (good coverage area). The rest of the time the response is so slow I would rather just type it in. If it's not near instant, it's just not going to work.
If you only have one iOS device, how do you view anything on iCloud like this? Yes it might restore eventually if your phone was destroyed and you logged in with another, and iCloud can sync to other devices, but if your iPhone is the only device you have, I cannot see a way to view photos at iCloud.com. And like the other options like DropBox, or G+ that do this as well, it's not instant even if you use cellular data. They would still have time to go into to your camera roll and delete photos or if you won't give them the password, they could just turn off your device and keep it (illegally).
At least for iPhones (which wouldn't have a memory card anyway), you have an instant upload such as what is available with G+ that automatically puts new pics into a special folder online. Same that you can enable on DropBox as well. I'm sure there are many more apps that do this automatically as well without needing to run a special app, they just do it automatically. While technically it's not direct upload to the cloud or instant unless you take with the app itself, by the time they get around to it, gotten past your password, it likely will have uploaded.
Such pronounced melting at Summit and across the ice sheet has not occurred since 1889, according to ice cores analyzed by Kaitlin Keegan at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H
It's scary if you look at a trend of only 30 years. And then you compare it to data that's only around 120 years old and find out it's not so bad. I'm not saying the melting isn't bad, just seems to be presumptions to say "unprecedented" and alarmist to use such language given the number of data points.
The only time I ever click on a Google ad is by accident when the list of items comes up after my search I click on the first item, but it hasn't quite loaded the entire page yet and I end up clicking on the ads at the top of the page instead. Lousy Google, tricking me into clicking on ads.
It will be interesting to see if they still allow all the grandfathered unlimited plans stay if the new iPhone comes with 4G. Talk about using the network. My buddy has a 4G One Note and was getting 35Mb/s on 4G in Houston. I'm betting the $30 unlimited plan days are going to be gone fairly quickly.
If you are currently "mostly around WiFi" how do you accumulate 1.2 GB on average per phone? It's not that much overall but on avg and when you're usually around WiFi makes me question one of those statements.
Related article: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-no-boom-telco-equipment-firms-4g-revolution-104449682--sector.html
While the phone makers are making the money, the networks are not seeing the same profits let alone the equipment makers. As we can do more with less, there is less $ to be made and that market looks to be shrinking as well even as we do more and more things with more data on our mobile devices.
Isn't Facebook going back to a more closed language build b/c HTLM5 just didn't work very smoothly for more complex apps? Course WebOS was supposed to take off as well because anyone could write an HTML5 app.
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Universal service provisions allowed telephone service to reach every single person in the entire country back in the day. The same thing should happen for broadband internet access today.
Yes and no. You might be surprised that "back in the day" includes the very recent past. There are some areas that just recently got telephone service.http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-670748.html Hopefully some kind of time frame would be added to the language.
And that the Universal Service Fund (USF) is going to transition over
On October 27, 2011, the FCC approved a six-year transfer process that would transition money from the Universal Service Fund High-Cost Program to a new $4.5 billion a year Connect America Fund for broadband Internet expansion, effectively putting an end to the USF High-Cost Fund by 2018
Lets hope it doesn't take as long as it did for telephony.
You don't understand it. The lawyers are indeed really happy. They still got paid.
My guesstimate is the lawyers are on retainer and/or are corporate salaried so they would have gotten paid anyway.
It gives the left a chance to show how noble, tolerant, and mature they can be.
You're right, you caught me. This thread buried deep in the story I decided to lie about some anecdotal evidence I have at my large company. Yes yours truly is an insightful post promoting good discussion. Though I suspect you are posting from high school (actually I hope so given the quality).
Let's not limit it to just the sub site of Gizmodo. The whole of Gawker media reeks of this type of "bloggerism" (they are not journalists). The only saving grace that Gawker has seems to be LifeHacker or possibly iO9.
I suspect it's partly regional, your flamebait comment aside. Having said that though, all the engineers and scientists I know either are independant or reluctant republican leaning even those from the New England area. But I work for a huge multinational company and any American engineer leans central-right. Perhaps it's corporate makeup, perhaps not.
leading many to suspect that our galaxy is home to billions of planets, a sizable portion of which could be habitable
I guess that depends on your definition of habitable.
One of my techs found out his Comcast service is capped at 200GB per month.
In what world does a residential line have any reason using 200GB per month? Are there any legitimate uses for a residential line using that? What possible legal usage could you have where *currently* that much is needed? What it sounds like is either they are downloading tons of Bittorrent feeds and/or they need a business account. That is so far beyond "normal" usage it's not even funny.
As a primetime NBC Olympics watcher, I was disappointed they didn't show more diving in primetime.
Seriously though, if you work all day, then come home to watch some Olympics in the evening, you'd think the only competitions there are, are some Gymnastics, Swiming, Diving, and Volleyball with a few highlights from track. You'd never know of the numerous other events. NBC coverage was so bad that they would analyze and show every person's dive, replay slowmo with computer analysis, watch them get in the hot tub afterwards and talk with their coach, etc. Then do a quick edit of just the main highlights of another track and field event, then back to more in-depth diving. That or waste even more time by rehashing the 92 dream team. Sorry judo, fencing, weightlifting, etc you don't get any primetime coverage.
Or even worse (from what I've seen), is what Lexus implemented in their cross-overs / SUV's. A type of computer mouse and monitor setup - no lie. Google Images will bring up some pics but it's horrendous.
Hopefully as has been announced with auto mfgs joining forces with Apple (and others?) to bring more sensible interaction with the console as well as smarter with connections with your smartphone.
an insane-right-wing Ayn Rand ideologue who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security
When either side starts using inflammatory language like this it A) makes me think they are afraid and/or B) are full of crap and just trying to vilify whomever they are talking about. You immediately lose any credibility with me.
> the overriding lesson I would take from the iPhone is "make just one model".
The iPhone doesn't come in just one model, hence why they're called 2, 3s, 4, 4s respectively.
They make the latest model. Stop being pedantic.
Red Mars. The reason is because of all the legitimate issues the astronauts had to face and the problems that could/will occur. It turned me off of wanting to go into space until we have something closer to Star Trek.
As long as it's secure and long as the response is more dependable and quicker than Siri. Half the time Siri doesn't work at all for me (good coverage area). The rest of the time the response is so slow I would rather just type it in. If it's not near instant, it's just not going to work.
If you only have one iOS device, how do you view anything on iCloud like this? Yes it might restore eventually if your phone was destroyed and you logged in with another, and iCloud can sync to other devices, but if your iPhone is the only device you have, I cannot see a way to view photos at iCloud.com. And like the other options like DropBox, or G+ that do this as well, it's not instant even if you use cellular data. They would still have time to go into to your camera roll and delete photos or if you won't give them the password, they could just turn off your device and keep it (illegally).
At least for iPhones (which wouldn't have a memory card anyway), you have an instant upload such as what is available with G+ that automatically puts new pics into a special folder online. Same that you can enable on DropBox as well. I'm sure there are many more apps that do this automatically as well without needing to run a special app, they just do it automatically. While technically it's not direct upload to the cloud or instant unless you take with the app itself, by the time they get around to it, gotten past your password, it likely will have uploaded.
They've tried it many times and famously in the documentary Waiting for Superman
Sadly it doesn't change even with large incentives as the Teachers unions blocked it.
This documentary pretty much summed all that up: Waiting for Superman
Such pronounced melting at Summit and across the ice sheet has not occurred since 1889, according to ice cores analyzed by Kaitlin Keegan at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H
It's scary if you look at a trend of only 30 years. And then you compare it to data that's only around 120 years old and find out it's not so bad. I'm not saying the melting isn't bad, just seems to be presumptions to say "unprecedented" and alarmist to use such language given the number of data points.
The only time I ever click on a Google ad is by accident when the list of items comes up after my search I click on the first item, but it hasn't quite loaded the entire page yet and I end up clicking on the ads at the top of the page instead. Lousy Google, tricking me into clicking on ads.
Last I checked this didn't have a disc drive so the number of Redbox movies you'll be putting on it is zero.
It will be interesting to see if they still allow all the grandfathered unlimited plans stay if the new iPhone comes with 4G. Talk about using the network. My buddy has a 4G One Note and was getting 35Mb/s on 4G in Houston. I'm betting the $30 unlimited plan days are going to be gone fairly quickly.
If you are currently "mostly around WiFi" how do you accumulate 1.2 GB on average per phone? It's not that much overall but on avg and when you're usually around WiFi makes me question one of those statements.
Related article: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-no-boom-telco-equipment-firms-4g-revolution-104449682--sector.html While the phone makers are making the money, the networks are not seeing the same profits let alone the equipment makers. As we can do more with less, there is less $ to be made and that market looks to be shrinking as well even as we do more and more things with more data on our mobile devices.
Isn't Facebook going back to a more closed language build b/c HTLM5 just didn't work very smoothly for more complex apps? Course WebOS was supposed to take off as well because anyone could write an HTML5 app.